A/N: Yes it's true that Argus Filch absolutely abhors Hogwarts Students, but Alexa Black's idea and reason completely undoes itself! No, our friendly neighbourhood Death Eater is not Filch – But congratulations to the first person with an idea. You may even expect her to be honoured in one of my future stories.
Chapter XIV: Taken Over
It had never come to Harry to tell Dumbledore about his dreams from Christmas Day, and he had given up the chance for a long time: Dumbledore had gone over to the Ministry to help set up. So that left Harry with only one thing to worry about – Quidditch. Later that night, Gryffindor would have the first by-night game in the season. Harry again took the team out to the pitch for a last-minute training session.
'Welcome to the first night game of Quidditch for the season, and tonight's match-up is Table leaders Gryffindor versus the second place team Ravenclaw!' Jay Jordan's voice boomed over the roaring crowd. Unlike the first game, the crowd was divided straight down the middle – Slytherin were backing Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff were all dressed in Gryffindor colours. 'And let's welcome the reigning champs: GRYFFINDOR!' and Gryffindor half burst into cheering. 'And now – The Hufflepuff team captained by Seeker Cho Chang!' the cheers from Slytherins seemed to eclipse everyone.
'Mount your brooms,' said Madam Hooch, and she blew her whistle. The quaffle was released, then the two bludgers, and finally the Snitch.
'And they're off! Brown grabs the quaffle and…' Harry dived down, Chang followed… 'POTTER'S SEEN THE SNITCH! CHANG'S NOT GOING TO CATCH HIM ON THE COMET 390! POTTER PULLS UP… CHANG CRASHES!' Harry felt very good about that, being the first time since training that he had successfully pulled off that move: 'THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME SINCE CHARLIE WEASLEY WAS HERE! THE WRONSKI FEINT!' The Gryffindor end of the crowd burst into applause and as that happened, Harry stretched out his arm, showing that he hadn't really done a Wronski Feint at all, in his hand was the snitch. 'Thankyou for attending the Quidditch – Final Scores: One hundred and fifty to nil.'
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'Wow! That was even better than last time! How do you do that?'
'Great catch – No one even saw it!'
'Brilliant' The entire Gryffindor house celebrated moving into a near-unbeatable situation in the Quidditch Cup, at around midnight, McGonagall came to the tower and sent everybody to bed and walked up to Harry and gave him congratulations. Then he went up to the dorm, and went straight to sleep.
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'Old… … … On a raid.' Arthur Weasley' voice haunted Harry for several nights. He remembered that from second year when he first met him. The only trouble was, he couldn't remember the name.
PENNY'S PONDERINGS
ORDER OF PHOENIX TAKES OVER MINISTRY OF MAGIC – MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST FUDGE
Albus Dumbledore last evening arrived at the Ministry of Magic and declared the Ministry a Phoenix Territory. Dumbledore also provided evidence that Cornelius Fudge had kept from the Wizarding Public that the Auror Office was run by known Death Eaters, who were all serving life sentences in Azkaban before it was opened. The Public can now only hope that now Dumbledore will be a Good Leader who can lead us through these hard times.
By Daily Prophet Political Correspondent, Jenny Penny – London.
Harry left the dormitory and went for an early morning flight. As he reached the entrance hall, he ran into Sirius. 'Harry, Quick – you have to have a look at Azkaban!'
'I was just going to go for a flight. Do you want to show me the way?'
'Sure.' The two of them walked over to the broom shed near the Quidditch pitch. Harry said the password to unlock his Firebolt, and then said to Sirius, 'You can use Ron's. He won't mind.' He passed Sirius the Nimbus, and they flew over countryside that Harry had never seen before and eventually Harry saw the sea, Sirius pointed to an island. And as he approached it, a castle materialised, the water turned into bubbling lava, and finally, the sky turned black with a huge cloud forming above him.
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A/N: Has anyone here played Zelda: Oracle of Seasons on N64? After checking the reviews at 8:30 A.M. (Aussie Eastern Time) on 24/02/02, I am proud to announce that we have more reviews than Chapters!
At chapter 14, this story has acquired a BETA reader, Lily Evans (Her hyperlink appears continuously in the review section, if you want to visit her).
How will the Quidditch season unfold? Will Dumbledore succeed as Minister for Magic? Find out – I'm not asking for the Identity of the Death Eater this time: No one has commented on what I believe is the single biggest development in the story – Snape's Death! Ha, Ha, I can't give you any more clues. The last one was somewhere in this story!